(7) “Great talkers should be cropped, for they have no need of ears.” Franklin.
(8) “Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.” Franklin.
(9) “All the works of Shakespeare cannot be read in a day; therefore the play of Hamlet, being one of the works of Shakespeare, cannot be read in a day.” Jevons.
(10) “Logic as it was cultivated by the schoolmen proved a fruitless study; therefore logic as it is cultivated at the present day must be a fruitless study likewise.” Jevons.
12. QUESTIONS FOR ORIGINAL THOUGHT AND INVESTIGATION.
(1) Is there any difference in content between error and fallacy? Illustrate.
(2) In what ways do trusts indulge in sophisms?
(3) May the sophism be used conscientiously by the country doctor? Explain.
(4) Give in substance Aristotle’s classification of fallacies.
(5) Select the fallacies which could with justice be called fallacies of interpretation. See Creighton.